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§1 Plant
Physalis pumila Nutt.
vernacular dwarf groundcherry — species · Solanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Solanaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Physalis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 127 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 127 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Anderson 20003
- Atchison 20005
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Dickinson 20041
- Douglas 20045
- Elk 20049
- Franklin 20059
- Geary 20061
- Grant 20067
- Greenwood 20073
- Harvey 20079
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Johnson 20091
- Labette 20099
- Linn 20107
- Marion 20115
- Marshall 20117
- Miami 20121
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Riley 20161
- Sedgwick 20173
- Shawnee 20177
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Boone 29019
- Carroll 29033
- Cedar 29039
- Clay 29047
- Dade 29057
- Dallas 29059
- Greene 29077
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Johnson 29101
- Lafayette 29107
- Lawrence 29109
- Livingston 29117
- Macon 29121
- McDonald 29119
- Newton 29145
- Ozark 29153
- Phelps 29161
- Polk 29167
- St. Louis 29189
- Stone 29209
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 20 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHPU8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341810 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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